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Community Templates

Community Templates are reusable content starting points, published and shared by users in a built-in marketplace, that you can clone into your own workspace to jump-start a piece of content. Rather than beginning every post from a blank page, you browse templates other people have contributed, rate and review the ones you try, and copy any of them into your account to adapt. Submissions pass through admin moderation before they circulate, and everything is stored in Firestore on the free tier.

What it does​

The marketplace is a shared library of content templates contributed by the community. It turns the work people put into a good structure — a post layout, a caption pattern, a campaign skeleton — into something others can reuse. You can both consume and contribute: pull templates into your workspace to build on, and publish your own for others to use.

The goal is speed and consistency. A template gives you a proven frame so you spend your time on the message rather than the scaffolding. Once a template is in your workspace, you can take it into the studio — for example feeding its structure into the text post generator — and shape it into a finished piece.

The controls and options​

The marketplace gives you these core actions:

  • Browse templates — explore the templates the community has published.
  • Publish a template — submit one of your own templates to the marketplace to share with other users.
  • Rate a template — give a template a rating based on your experience using it.
  • Review a template — leave a written review so others know how a template worked for you.
  • Clone a template — copy a template into your own workspace, where you can edit and adapt it without changing the original.

Ratings and reviews help the community surface templates that genuinely work, and cloning keeps the original intact while giving you a private copy to modify.

How it works: publish, moderate, clone​

When you publish a template, it enters the submission flow rather than appearing instantly. Submissions are subject to admin moderation, which reviews contributions before they circulate in the marketplace. This keeps the shared library useful and on-topic, and it is an honest, human step rather than an automated promise.

Once a template is available, anyone can clone it. Cloning creates a copy under your account that is yours to edit; the contributor's original is untouched. Rating and reviewing are layered on top, so the community's collective experience guides which templates rise to attention. None of this requires a paid backend — it fits the zero-cost model the app is built around, with no Firebase Cloud Functions involved.

Where the data lives​

Templates, ratings, reviews, and your cloned copies are stored in Firestore, scoped appropriately to public templates and to your account, on Firebase's free tier. There is no paid storage layer. A cloned template lives under your account so you can adapt it freely, and a published template lives in the shared marketplace after moderation. For how the rest of the stack stays free, read the zero-cost model.

Community Templates connect naturally to the rest of the workflow. After cloning a template, you can build on it in the studio, line the result up in the scheduling queue, and publish to your connected social platforms. To get oriented first, see the introduction, the quick start, and the tools overview.

Frequently asked questions​

What is a community template? A reusable content starting point that a user has published to the shared marketplace. You can clone it into your workspace and adapt it for your own content.

What happens when I publish a template? Your template enters a submission flow and is subject to admin moderation before it circulates in the marketplace. This keeps the shared library useful and on-topic.

Does cloning change the original template? No. Cloning creates a private copy under your account. You can edit your copy freely while the contributor's original stays intact.

Can I rate and review templates? Yes. You can rate a template and leave a written review based on your experience, which helps other users find templates that work.

Where are templates and reviews stored? In Firestore on Firebase's free tier. There is no paid storage and no Cloud Functions behind the marketplace.